On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:16:01AM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 02:40:13PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > >> We currently notify for port deletions in the namespace of the device > >> that was deleted. ??In general this should be initial namespace because > >> that's the only place where we look but it's possible that the device > >> was moved after being attached. ??However, it's not semantically correct > >> because we really care about the namespace of the userspace process, not > >> that of the device. ??This switches to genl_multicast() which always uses > >> the initial namespace and seems more appropriate anyways. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> > > > > I don't understand the primary explanation of this issue. ??What > > userspace process's namespace do we care about? > > ovs-vswitchd, which will only be listening in the initial namespace > (at the moment but still a single namespace in the future). The > kernel should send all notifications to that namespace and it is not > related to where the devices are attached.
OK. My guess is that if we get improved namespace support then a datapath will belong to a namespace and then the notification will go to that namespace? Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
